A New AtmosphereTicknor and Fields, 1865 - 310 pages |
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... live , entirely apart from their technical education and employment . I re- fer now to the refined and educated , as well as , and indeed more than , to the rude and illiterate , for it is their altitude which determines the level of ...
... live , entirely apart from their technical education and employment . I re- fer now to the refined and educated , as well as , and indeed more than , to the rude and illiterate , for it is their altitude which determines the level of ...
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... lives are yet untouched , for whom warning and caution may not be too late . It is these the weak , the plastic , the impressible — whom your earth - born morality is corrupting , whose possibilities of happiness and self - respect your ...
... lives are yet untouched , for whom warning and caution may not be too late . It is these the weak , the plastic , the impressible — whom your earth - born morality is corrupting , whose possibilities of happiness and self - respect your ...
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... live in a bird's - nest on a tree - top , and immediately the car- penters come and build her a bower in the tallest tree that overlooks the sea . This young lady has a strong inclination to surgery , a most perverted and unwomanly ...
... live in a bird's - nest on a tree - top , and immediately the car- penters come and build her a bower in the tallest tree that overlooks the sea . This young lady has a strong inclination to surgery , a most perverted and unwomanly ...
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... live as it costs a man . It costs a woman just as much to live as it does a man . If men would be willing to practise the small economies that wo- men practise , they could live at no greater expense . There are some things in which ...
... live as it costs a man . It costs a woman just as much to live as it does a man . If men would be willing to practise the small economies that wo- men practise , they could live at no greater expense . There are some things in which ...
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... live woman making shirts for Milk Street merchants in Bos- ton , at five cents apiece . O men , you who shut your eyes to the stern and awful facts of life , and rhapsodize over your fine - spun theories , what will A NEW ATMOSPHERE . 51.
... live woman making shirts for Milk Street merchants in Bos- ton , at five cents apiece . O men , you who shut your eyes to the stern and awful facts of life , and rhapsodize over your fine - spun theories , what will A NEW ATMOSPHERE . 51.
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Page 254 - God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her!
Page 276 - Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church : and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Page 298 - I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King...
Page 279 - Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Page 253 - I shall never, in the years remaining, Paint you pictures, no, nor carve you statues, Make you music that should all-express me; So it seems: I stand on my attainment. This of verse alone, one life allows me; Verse and nothing else have I to give you Other heights in other lives, God willing: All the gifts from all the heights, your own, love!
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Page 251 - TO the beloved and deplored memory of her who was the inspirer, and in part the author, of all that is best in my writings — the friend and wife whose exalted sense of truth and right was my strongest incitement, and whose approbation was my chief reward — / dedicate this volume.
Page 102 - And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Page 253 - She would turn a new side to her mortal, Side unseen of herdsman, huntsman, steersman — Blank to Zoroaster on his terrace, Blind to Galileo on his turret, Dumb to Homer, dumb to Keats — him, even!
Page 263 - JACK and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after.